A Florida Today article on Wednesday describes efforts by the state’s space industry to lobby state legislators and governor Jeb Bush to for additional incentives. Members of industry, along with representatives from NASA, the Air Force, and the Florida Space Authority, made the rounds in Tallahassee on Tuesday trying to line up support for additional money for various efforts. The group is looking for, among other items, $1.3 million for the Florida Commercial Space Financing Corporation, a nonprofit organization that serves as “clearinghouse for innovative financing for aerospace industry projects”, and $500,000 to continue work on a hangar at KSC that the article says would be used for “NASA’s next space vehicle after the shuttle is retired at the end of the decade.” (One wonders what happens if that vehicle turns out to be an expendable Apollo-like capsule.)
